UC Davis Wildlife Health Center: Archived News

topnavbar2.cfm.gif

leftnavbar

Wildlife Conservation

Donor Opportunities

Feature Articles

3.29.2004 WHC in the news
Sacramento Bee
Walk on the wild side: Vet students at UCD spend spring break with animals (Ziccardi, Sacbee, March 04)
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habitats/rap/pdf/SacBee-WHC_3-29-04.pdf

Avian Influenza

12.10.2005 WHC in the news
LINE OF DEFENSE: BIRD FLU PREVENTION
ABC World News Tonight
By NEAL KARLINSKY
Dr. Walter Boyce and Dr. Carol Cardona of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center (inaccurate for Dr. Cardona, who is not affiliated with the WHC) are featured in this report on testing hunter-killed birds
for avian influenza.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13541

12.12.2005 WHC in the news
CALIF. HUNTERS AID U.S. BIRD FLU DEFENSE
ABC World News Tonight
By Neal Karlinsky
Hunters are basically sampling the birds for us, says Walter Boyce, director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center. Poultry specialist Carol Cardona is also quoted.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13530

11.21.2005 WHC in the news
MIGRATION ROUTES A FACTOR IN BIRD FLU FIGHT; UC DAVIS SCIENTISTS
WORRY THAT THE VIRUS COULD BE CARRIED BY GEESE AND DUCKS HEADING
SOUTH FROM SIBERIA. TESTING IS UNDERWAY.
The Los Angeles Times
By Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer
Monday paper, Metro section, front page: This story and photos focus exclusively on Walter Boyce and colleagues at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, who are watching the skies for the arrival of the
avian flu virus.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13312

11.20.2005 WHC in the news
NORTH AMERICA ON HIGH ALERT FOR SIGNS OF AVIAN FLU MIGRATION
Toledo Blade
By Steve Pollick -- Blade Outdoors Editor
This article on avian influenza is accompanied by a New York Times photo of Walter Boyce and Grace Lee of UC Davis' Wildlife Health Center checking a magpie for bird flu.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13316

11.16.2005 WHC in the news
UC DAVIS CHECKS FOR SIGNS OF AVIAN FLU
NBC Nightly News
Walter Boyce, UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, says on national news at 5:30 pm: I want to learn as much as we can about how these viruses are moving through wild birds and what might make these viruses jump from wild birds into poultry or people or another species.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13283

11.16.2005 WHC in the news
WATERFOWL HUNTERS NEED TO FOLLOW SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS
Lake County Record-Bee
By Terry Knight -- Record-Bee outdoors columnist
This year the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) and scientists from the University of California have been sampling ducks and geese taken by hunters for avian flu.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13269

11.14.2005 WHC in the news
AVIAN FLU DEATH TOLL RISING, GENETIC CHANGES SEEN IN VIRUS
NBC: The News with Brian Williams
On 5:30 p.m. news program, a short video shows UC Davis researchers taking samples from hunters' dead birds. "Hunters who bagged wild birds near the campus of the University of California at Davis
brought their catches in for testing."
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13246

11.13.2005 WHC in the news
AVIAN FLU HUNT LANDS IN YOLO; VIRUS ISN'T EXPECTED TO SHOW UP HERE
YET, BUT MIGRATING BIRDS COULD CARRY IT BETWEEN CONTINENTS.
The Sacramento Bee
By Edie Lau Bee Science Writer
Detailed description of dead-bird sampling at hunter check station features Walter Boyce, a veterinarian and director of the Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis, and Terra Kelly, a doctoral student in veterinary epidemiology. Also mentioned: Carol Cardona, a veterinarian and avian flu expert with UC Cooperative Extension.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13241

11.8.2005 WHC in the news
VIRUS BECOMES TOP PRIORITY: HEALTH: FEAR OF A HUMAN-TO-HUMAN SPREAD
SPURS INCREASED SCREENING OF MIGRATORY BIRDS.
Press-Enterprise (Inland So. Calif.)
By DOUGLAS E. BEEMAN / The Press-Enterprise
Large package of stories and graphics include references to UC Davis scientists Walter Boyce and Carol Cardona, a UC Davis poultry veterinarian.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13182

11.6.2005 WHC in the news
SENTRIES IN U.S. SEEK EARLY SIGNS OF AN AVIAN FLU
New York Times
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Sunday Page One story describes research in wild birds at UC Davis by Grace Y. Lee and Dr. Walter M. Boyce, director of the university's Wildlife Health Center, calling them sentries on the country's epidemiological ramparts.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13159

11.4.2005 WHC in the news
MIGRATORY RISK ASSESSMENT: GULL APPEARANCE HIGHLIGHTS STATE
VULNERABILITY TO BIRD FLU
Vermont Guardian
By Kathryn Casa | Vermont Guardian
Rare gull seen in Vermont; the sole public scientific account of avian flu in a black-tailed gull was in the 1980s, said Dr. Walter Boyce, co-director of the Wildlife Health Center at the University of
California at Davis.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13148

11.2.2005 WHC in the news
U.C. DAVIS SCIENTISTS TRACK BIRD FLU SPREAD
KPIX Channel 5 (CBS, San Francisco)
Evening news story describes how birds are caught at UC Davis to watch for avian flu. "It is important because if avian flu reaches the wild bird population it will be necessary to know it as soon possible to protect people and poultry." Features researchers Grace
Lee and Yvette Hernandez.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13142

10.28.2005 WHC in the news
BIRD MIGRATION ADDS TO AVIAN FLU WORRIES
KPIX Channel 5 (CBS, San Francisco)
By Bill Schechner
6 pm newscast: Walter Boyce and the UC Davis Wildlife Center are monitoring the migration of birds, which could contribute to the spread of avian flu.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13084

10.24.2005 WHC in the news
UK, US ON HIGH ALERT AGAINST BIRD FLU
www.chinaview.cn
Dr. Walter Boyce is from the UC Davis Wildlife Centre. "Clearly bird flu is on the move. Our concern is that wild birds, as they migrate, might carry bird flu with them," said Boyce.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=13010

10.20.2005 WHC in the news
ON ALERT FOR BIRD FLU
KGO-7 (ABC, San Francisco Bay Area)
In 11 pm news report, KGO aired a localized version of the national
news story that aired at 5:30 pm and featured UC Davis experts Carol
Cardona and Walter Boyce. Transcript not available.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12988

10.20.2005 WHC in the news
CLOSER LOOK: BIRD FLU
ABC World News Tonight
ABC national news at 5:30 pm featured the work of Walter Boyce, UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, and Carol Cardona, UC Davis veterinarian. "Our goal is to try to detect what viruses they are carrying and basically have an early warning that something might be getting ready to happen," said Boyce.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12984

10.18.2005 WHC in the news
PREPARATION, NOT PANIC, BEST APPROACH TO AVIAN FLU NEWS
Davis Enterprise
By Cory Golden
Front-page story on human and animal health experts at UC Davis who are guiding an effort to plan for the avian flu. Included are public health physicians Christian Sandrock and Warner Hudson; Walter Boyce, a wildlife veterinarian and WHC Director; and Carol Cardona, a UC Davis poultry
veterinarian.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12969

10.13.2005 WHC in the news
SCIENTISTS WARN OF BIRD FLU THREAT
KPIX Channel 5 (CBS, San Francisco)
By John Lobertini
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Walter Boyce is interviewed about avian influenza.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12906

10.12.2005 WHC in the news
BIRD FLU
KFBK-AM
Dr. Terra Kelly, a UC Davis wildlife veterinarian studying avian influenza, talked about the disease in birds and people for three minutes at 7:15 a.m. Transcript not available.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12892

10.2.2005 WHC in the news
THREAT OF BIRD FLU IS LOOMING
Sacramento Bee
By Daniel Weintraub
The columnist quotes UC Davis faculty member Warner Hudson, a clinical physician and public health expert as saying that in the case of avian influenza: "The stakes are mighty high. It's too big a bet not to prepare like crazy." Also mentioned is Walter Boyce, co-director of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Willdlife Health Center.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12773

Mountain Lions

4.21.2005 WHC in the news
THREAT FROM COUGARS BEING ASSESSED BY STATE: FOREST: ONE OF THE TWO
REPORTED BY A MURRIETA FAMILY COULD BE PART OF AN ONGOING ANIMAL
STUDY.
Press-Enterprise (Inland So. Calif.)
By LEEZEL TANGLAO / The Press-Enterprise
Walter Boyce, director of the Wildlife Center at UC Davis, said he
suspects the lion with the transmitter is one of three lions in a
larger study of the animals by the center.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=11132

4.20.2005 WHC in the news
READY FOR A CLOSE-UP: FILM OFFERS GLIIMPSE INTO EFFORTS TO SAVE
BIGHORN SHEEP AND MOUNTAIN LIONS
Davis Enterprise
By Cory Golden/Enterprise staff writer
Accompanying information box notes that this filmmaker will be joined
by Walter Boyce of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, who will
answer questions afer the film.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=11125

4.15.2005 WHC in the news
TALK WILL FOCUS ON MOUNTAIN LIONS
Davis Enterprise
By Sharon Navarro
Story promoting public talk in Davis includes biography information
about and lion-behavior expertise from Walter Boyce, executive
director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=11120

2.14.2005 WHC in the news
UNANIMOUS VOTE ON ANZA-BORREGO ISSUE
The San Diego Union-Tribune
By Mike Lee, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
One comment supporting a vehicle ban in part of the state park came from Walter Boyce, executive director of the Wildlife Health Center at the University of California Davis and an expert in the biology of
Anza-Borrego.
<http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=10551>

10.13.2004
Palo Alto Weekly WHC in the news
In the lion's den? More mountain lions spotted near residential areas, official says
by Bill D'Agostino and Tony Burchyns
On a table at the Palo Alto nature center, City Naturalist Deborah Bartens displayed a map of the region, replete with tricolor-coded flags. The colors represent degrees of danger that mirror America's terrorist-alert system.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2004/2004_10_13.lion27.shtml

10.8.2004 WHC in the news
Davis residents warned mountain lion may be near
By Pamela Martineau
DAVIS - Signs have been posted warning of a possible mountain lion sighting Wednesday night in an agricultural field next to homes on the north border of the city, police officials said Thursday.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/11016168p-11933282c.html

10.7.2004 WHC in the news
MOUNTAIN LION SIGHTING REPORTED IN DAVIS: ANIMAL SPOTTED NEAR NORTH
DAVIS GREENBELT
KCRA Channel 3 (NBC)
By Ken Pritchett
The main source for this story, UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Walter
Boyce, says it is possible that the lion was just passing through
since Davis doesn't have a lot of the deer that these cats prey upon.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=9381

10.7.2004 WHC in the news
COUGAR MAY HAVE BEEN SPOTTED NEAR NORTH DAVIS
Davis Enterprise
By Lauren Keene, Enterprise staff writer
As the Yolo County Animal Services Department investigates the
possible sighting of a mountain lion, Walter Boye of the Wildlife
Health Center says mountain lions typically travel along creeks and
ditches where vegetation can hide their movements. Text to come.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=9386

9.24.2004
Creek Running North
PUMA
By Chris Clarke
I’m here to tell the tale, so, obviously, I didn’t die. Time passed, and I realized that I was still on the side of the road, still breathing, and that my fear sweat had grown cold. It had been ten minutes at least. I looked over, somewhat warily. No puma in sight. I didn’t smell enough like a deer, I guess. I got up and walked.
http://www.faultline.org/place/pinolecreek/archives/001952.html#more

8.30.2004
IN THE SHADOW OF THE BIG CATS WHC in the news
Sports Illustrated
By Austin Murphy
Walter Boyce, director of UC Davis' Wildlife Health Center, says the increase in mountain lion attacks on humans in recent years reflects not a change in mountain lion behavior but the growing number of
people entering the animals' shrinking habitat.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=9217

8.23.2004
NOWHERE TO ROAM: WILDLIFE RESERVES ALONE CANNOT PROTECT BIG CATS. A LOOK AT NEW WAYS TO SAVE THEM WHC in the news
Time Magazine
By TERRY MCCARTHY with Andrea Dorfman
This long cover story in Time mentions a study of cougars conducted by UC Davis researchers. "They do a remarkable job of keeping away from humans," UC Davis biologist Walter Boyce says of the cougars.
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101040823-682247,00.html

6.29.2004
MOUNTAIN LION ATTACK WHC in the news
CBS-AM
By Hattie Kaufman
Walter Boyce of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center describes how mountain lions check out homes in the mountainous suburbs like a newspaper delivery person might, looking for possible food sources.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=8607

West Nile Virus

8.13.2005
W. NILE'S TOLL ON BIRDS IS SOARING
THE YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIE COULD DISAPPEAR AS VIRUS SPREADS IN NORTH
STATE.
Sacramento Bee
By Deb Kollars -- Bee Staff Writer
Holly Ernest, a wildlife veterinarian who directs the Wildlife
Genetics Lab at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, is
involved in several research projects to monitor the disease's impact
on the local magpie.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12206

8.11.2005 WHC in the news
WEST NILE SPRAY AREA SET TO GROW; THE EFFORT, WHICH OFFICIALS SAY IS
WORKING, WILL SHIFT TO SOUTH AREA.
Sacramento Bee
By Deb Kollars -- Bee Staff Writer
Crickets, goldfish, pill bugs and other insects set out overnight in
Sacramento's mosquito-spray zones survived just as well as comparison
groups protected from the spray, said Walter Boyce, director of UC
Davis Wildlife Health Center. UCDMC reported no increase in people
seeking medical help.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12200

8.11.2005 WHC in the news
WHAT ABOUT THE BIRDS?
Davis Enterprise
By Cory Golden/Enterprise staff writer
Walter Boyce, executive director of the Wildlife Health Center at UC
Davis, says that aerial spraying to control West Nile virus-carrying
mosquitoes would benefit birds that are the principal victims of the
virus. He notes that it is appropriate that the debate on spraying
should focus on human health.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12198

8.9.2005 WHC in the news
W. NILE SPRAYING BEGINS; OFFICIALS SAY IT'S SAFE, BUT PUBLIC FEARS
ARE WIDESPREAD
Sacramento Bee
By Deb Kollars and Carrie Peyton Dahlberg -- Bee Staff Writers
Walter Boyce, director of the UC Davis Center for Wildlife Health,
will monitor effects on "nontarget" insects like beetles, earwigs and
ladybugs. The center is studying West Nile's impact on the bird
population.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12157

10.5.2004 WHC in the news
UC Davis News & Information
Wildlife at Risk From West Nile Virus
Some California wildlife, especially rare and endangered birds, could be at serious risk from the West Nile virus, says a report from the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7170

8.29.2004 WHC in the news
West Nile's effect on bird population causes worry
Davis Enterprise
by Cory Golden, Enterprise Staff Writer
Walter Boyce is quoted in this piece on the effects of West Nile virus on local bird populations, especially corvids.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=9100

8.29.2004
VIRUS DECIMATING BIRDS: SCIENTISTS WORRY W. NILE COULD HEAVILY IMPACT
FOOD CHAIN WHC in the news
San Bernardino County Sun
By NIKKI COBB, Staff Writer
William [incorrect; should be Walter] Boyce, a veterinarian and director of UC Davis' Wildlife Health Center, is the primary source in this story, which discusses the possible long-term effects of the
deaths of many insect-eating birds and birds of prey.
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208%257E12588%257E2367812,00.html?search=filter

7.6.04
WEST Nile virus poses dangers to wildlife WHC in the news
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
Efforts to prevent the spread of West Nile Virus in California shouldn't
ignore the state's wildlife, including majestic raptors and endangered
sheep in ...
http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20040703014723.shtml
See all stories on this topic

6.29.2004
WorldNetDaily.com WHC in the news
Mosquito plague spreads to 4 more states
1st horse infections discovered in California
West Nile virus spread yesterday to Tennessee, Connecticut, Kansas and Nebraska, with positive signs of infection in birds or humans in nearly every state in the continental U.S. reported this year, a survey by WorldNetDaily shows.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39215

6.28.2004
UC Davis News Release WHC in the news
West Nile Virus Could Be Serious Threat to Some Wildlife
Reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals are all vulnerable to the disease, UC Davis wildlife experts say.
A report released today by wildlife health experts at the University of California, Davis, warns that West Nile virus could pose a serious threat to some species, especially rare and endangered birds, and encourages officials to broaden existing monitoring efforts to track the virus's movement in the state.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7050

Coyotes

Other Mammals

8.19.2005 WHC in the news
Pneumonia kills more endangered bighorns
Associated Press
PALM DESERT, Calif. - Pneumonia has killed two more Peninsular bighorn sheep and scientists say they fear an epidemic is brewing that could wipe out the endangered species.
http://www2.dailynews.com/news/ci_2954777

8.19.2005
DESERT SUN WHC in the news
Specialists fear epidemic in sheep deaths
Two more bighorns have succumbed to pneumonia this week
Bill Byron
The Desert Sun
Pneumonia has claimed the lives of two more Peninsular bighorn sheep this week in what may be the beginning of a species-threatening epidemic.
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050819/NEWS07/508190338/1006

8.18.2005 WHC in the news
SCIENTISTS CONCERNED AS TWO MORE BIGHORN SHEEP DIE FROM PNEUMONIA
The Associated Press
Professor Walter Boyce, director of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, says researchers fear that the death of seven out of 705 peninsular bighorn sheep may be the beginning of an epidemic.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=12273

Marine Life

3.29.2005 WHC in the news
UP TO 63 SPECIES AT RISK OFF B.C. COAST, STUDY SAYS
Vancouver Sun
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun
Page One story describes study by Joseph Gaydos and Nicholas Brown,
of the SeaDoc Society, a marine ecosystem health program administered
through the University of California, Davis, Wildlife Health Center,
and based in Washington's San Juan Islands.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=10948

3.29.2005 WHC in the news
BORDER IMPERILS MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
Times-Colonist (Victoria, B.C., Canada)
By Larry Pynn and Louise Dickson, CanWest News Services; Times Colonist
Research was conducted by the SeaDoc Society, "a marine ecosystem
program administered through the University of California and based
in Washington's San Juan Islands." Does not state that the program is
run by UC Davis.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=10949

2.24.2005 WHC in the news
Peninsula Daily News (Olympia, Washington)
By Raul Vasquez
Scientists [including Joe Gaydos] from the University of Washington and the SeaDoc Society, a scientific-based organization that funds research in the North Pacific Ocean, have been capturing gulls and taking samples to determine levels of shellfish contamination.
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/186818

6.29. 2004
Volunteer SCUBA divers needed to help survey marine resources WHC in the news
Every July SCUBA divers around the country take to the water to count fish. Like the annual Christmas bird count, this annual fish count acts an index of how fish and invertebrate populations are doing. It also introduces recreational divers to the idea that they can help monitor and steward our living marine resources. A training class will be held July 2, 2004.
http://www.sanjuanislander.com/groups/mehp/survey.shtml

6.29.2004
New Research on Local Marine Mammal Strandings WHC in the news
Nearly a hundred dead or sick marine mammals strand in San Juan County every year. Local research now shows that seals, porpoise, and other marine mammals are more likely to strand on certain types of beaches. The SeaDoc Society and the Whale Museum will sponsor a free public lecture about these findings at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor. Light refreshments will be available.
http://www.sanjuanislander.com/groups/mehp/info.shtml

Fire

10.13.2004
San Diego Union-Tribune
Two-day symposium addresses Cedar fire's effects on state park
By Elizabeth Fitzsimons, STAFF WRITER
CUYAMACA RANCHO STATE PARK * In all the destruction of the Cedar fire * lives ended and changed, homes and memories destroyed, the landscape transformed * some of the county's history was lost.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041013/news_1mc13year.html

9.23.2004
North County Times
Symposium offers a fresh look at fire-damaged park
By: ERNIE COWAN - For the North County Times
A year after the devastating Cedar Fire virtually destroyed Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, the Anza-Borrego Institute and California State Parks are hosting a symposium Oct. 16-17 on the "Recovery Expectations and Realities of the Cedar Fire."
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/09/23/news/columnists/outdoors/23_04_179_22_04.txt

9.23.2004
San Diego Union-Tribune
Fire threat spurs forest closure; Cleveland National lands near I-8 at risk
By Gregory Alan Gross, STAFF WRITER

Oiled Wildlife

1.31.2005 WHC in the news
TELLTALE 'FINGERPRINTS' CAN LEAD CHEMISTS TO SOURCES OF OIL SPILLS
Sacramento Bee
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg -- Bee Staff Writer
The spill fatally oiled more birds than any slick along California shores since 1986, according to officials with the UC Davis-led bird rescue effort. Color photograph shows Mike Ziccardi, director of the
UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network, releasing a formerly oiled grebe.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=10386

1.26.2005
The California Aggie WHC in the news
UC Davis leads Southern California effort to rescue oiled birds
Cause of oil spill still under investigation
By VANESSA STUMPF / Aggie News Writer
UC Davis experts are leading the rescue efforts after an oil spill off the Southern California coast killed approximately 800 birds almost two weeks ago.
http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=7146

1.25.2005 WHC in the news
OILED BIRD RESCUE CONTINUES
KTLA-TV Ch. 5 (WB, Los Angeles)
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Dr. Michael Ziccardi was interviewed live on the station's morning news shows at 7:30 am and 8:30 am, and in taped interviews for tonight's 10 pm news. Transcripts not
available.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=10339

1.25.2005 WHC in the news
MYSTERY OIL SPILL 'WORST SINCE PRESTIGE'
GreenConsumerGuide.com
Jonna Mazet, a UC Davis veterinarian commented; "Just because you don't see a broken ship doesn't mean there aren't huge impacts on wildlife."
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/in_the_news/full_text/view_clip.lasso?id=10338

1.24.2005
Copley News Service WHC in the news
SeaWorld aiding sea birds made ill by offshore oil slick
Jonna Mazet, director of UC Davis' Willife Health Center, says that as many as 5,000 sea birds may have been affected by the oil slick along the Southern California coast.

1.24.2005 WHC in the news
KOGO-AM (San Diego)
Oiled birds
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Jonna Mazet was interviewed about the care of oiled birds found in Southern California. No transcript available.

1.22.2005 WHC in the news
Sacramento Bee
Laura Mecoy
Onshore source suspected in major oil spill: Officials say the incident that killed or hurt at least 3,000 seabirds likely began in Ventura County.
At the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center in San Pedro, UC Davis veterinarians and volunteers tried to rehabilitate injured birds. Quoted are veterinarians Greg Massey and Jonna Mazet as well as News Service spokeswoman Sylvia Wright.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/12106308p-12976316c.html

1.22.2005 WHC in the news
The Los Angeles Times
Wells Are Suspected in Oil Leak: Officials doubt natural seepage is the
source of goo that has harmed as many as 5,000 seabirds. Facilities near
Ventura River are focus of probe.
Wildlife experts from UC Davis are caring for injured birds at the Oiled Bird Care and Education Center in San Pedro. Veterinarian Michael Ziccardi is featured in a photograph of the release of a cleaned-up bird.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oil22jan22,1,6477579.story?coll=la-headlines-california

1.22.2005 WHC in the news
Santa Barbara News-Press
Oil-coated seabirds: 'This is a real mystery'
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Jonna Mazet describes the treatment of oiled birds. No transcript available.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
The Los Angeles Times
Mysterious Oil Patches Take Big Toll on Seabirds: Up to 5,000 avians have
been harmed, the most in the state since a spill off the coast in 1990.
Page One story. Jonna Mazet, a UC Davis veterinarian and director of the vet school's Center for Wildlife Health, says that the absence of a damaged ship "doesn't mean there aren't huge impacts on wildlife." Veterinarian Michael Ziccardi, director of UC Davis' Oiled Wildlife Care Network, says that, in just three days, rescuers have recovered as many sick and dead birds as were found in three weeks following a 2002 oil tanker spill in Spain. This same story also ran on the front page of today's Sacramento Bee.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
UPN Ch. 31
California investigators seek source of mystery oil spill
Story mentions the work of the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center, which is part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network headquartered at UC Davis.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
Sacramento Bee
Mystery oil spill draws UCD team
The UC Davis-based Oiled Wildlife Care Network is featured in this story. Network director Michael Zicardi is leading the rescue effort. This story ran as a sidebar to the Los Angeles Times story that the Bee picked up.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
City News Service
Birds
Veterinarian Michael Ziccardi of UC Davis' Oiled Wildlife Care Network has been managing care of oil-damaged birds at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center in San Pedro.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
KCBS-AM (San Francisco)
Oiled birds
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Jonna Mazet was interviewed about the care of oiled birds found in Southern California. No transcript available.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SeaWorld treats ill birds coated by offshore oil slick
"Any way you look at it, this is a huge hit to this population," said Jonna Mazet, a UC Davis veterinarian and expert on the rescue of oil-sickened wildlife.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
KTLA-TV Ch. 5 (WB, Los Angeles)
Oiled birds rescued
Veterinarian Greg Massey of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center is interviewed and shown conducting a medical exam of an oiled bird. No transcript available.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
KTTV-TV Fox 11 (Los Angeles)
Oiled birds
Veterinarian Greg Massey of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center is interviewed and shown conducting a medical exam of an oiled bird. No transcript available.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
KPFA-FM (Berkeley)
Oiled birds
Veterinarians Michael Ziccardi and Jonna Mazet of UC Davis' Oiled Wildlife Care Network are interviewed about the status of oiled birds in Southern California. No transcript available.

1.21.2005 WHC in the news
KFBK-AM
Oiled birds
Veterinarian Jonna Mazet of UC Davis' Oiled Wildlife Care Network is interviewed about the status of oiled birds in Southern California. No transcript is available.

1.20.2005 WHC in the news
Sacramento Business Journal
UC Davis leads rescue of oiled seabirds
UC Davis wildlife experts are leading the rescue of oiled seabirds on the Southern California coast. The source of the oil spill has not been identified, but the spill is considered the worst worldwide for wildlife in
more than two years.

1.19.2005 WHC in the news
Long Beach Press Telegram
Seabirds treated for oil saturation: Officials unsure if contamination is
from spill or storms.
About 170 of the 1,000 birds have died or been euthanized, and an additional 155 were found dead, said Greg Massey, a veterinarian with the Wildlife Health Center at UC Davis.

1.18.2005 WHC in the news
Capital Public Radio: Insight
UC Davis leads oiled-bird care
Veterinarian Michael Ziccardi of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center describes the oil-spill rescue care being given to nearly 1,000 birds at our San Pedro facility.

1.17.2005 WHC in the news
The Los Angeles Times
Volunteers Flock to Oiled Birds: Hundreds help wildlife workers care for
animals hurt by mystery spill along the coast.
The scientific source for this story is Michael Ziccardi, program director for the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. The network is operated by UC Davis and Ziccardi is a UC Davis veterinarian but the story does not include that information.

1.17.2005 WHC in the news
The Daily News of Los Angeles
Soiled coastal birds dying
Story includes references to Greg Massey, a veterinarian with the Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis, and to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, a partnership between universities [UC Davis] and private rehabilitation groups financed by the California Department of Fishand Game.

1.15.2005 WHC in the news
Daily Breeze (Torrance, Calif.)
Bird-rescue facility gets its 1st major test: Almost 400 oil-soaked grebes are brought to San Pedro for treatment. Volunteer help is needed. "We specifically designed this place for oil spills. What we are finding out now is how good of an architect we were," said Michael Ziccardi, director of the network, which is part of the Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis.